The goal of each crewman was to survive long enough to be able to join the Lucky Bastard club. The unlucky ones either sacrifriced their lives for us or spent some horrible time in a POW camp.

Index provides a list of 5000+ crewmen who made the 388th proud. More details (Personnel Detail) on each crew is available by clicking on the link.

Summary provides summary data for the 388th crewmen. The summary data includes name, first and last mission, number of missions etc. More details for each crewman is available by clicking on the link.

Notes provides brief explanations of certain aspects of the crewmen.

Person Details provide detailed crewman information which includes photograph (if we have one), list of sorties flown and other items associated with the crewman. These details are available by clicking on links in the Personnel Summary and Personnel Index pages.

Hank Henggeler : Hank Henggeler was the original 563rd squadron commander. He flew a total of 27 combat missions mostly as a group or deputy group commander.

Chester Cox : Chester Cox was the original 388th bomb group deputy commander. He flew a total of xx combat missions mostly as group commander. Chester was known to play the piano at the officers club while some of the guys would stand around and sing songs.